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If The GIMP was as good as Photoshop, Adobe would be out of business.
But, yeah, for a freebie, it's good. She'll need to invest a lot of time in learning how to work with layers to do as you've mentioned, Leon.
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But Gimp is a thorn in their side, as it taking some of their market share.
Both gimp and Photoshop layers based
GIMP is just as good a Photoshop for most home users it mightn't be as good for the pro's, but to say its no good at all is misleading and untrue. Some of you are are in the pro category and are biased, as the features you need, (which most are 3rd party plugings anyway) the average joe out there wouldn't even need. GIMP is open source and free, and its very good for most users and their needs. GIMP is a powerfull piece of open source software, and dose the job for millions of user's. I use linux as my main OS and use gimp for all my photo editing needs, my young daughter uses it to put effects on the photo collages she makes. I have a windows PC with Photshop on it and all that "I" need to do can be done on both. There are a lot of tuorials on youtube on GIMP Leon, and most software has a learning curve, but thats half the fun. BTW a good tutorial on cutting out images in GIMP is
here not as hard as it sounds.
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Photoshop: Very capable, very expensive, commercial software with very strict licensing. Only available for Windows and Mac. Somewhat of a memory hog and I really don’t care for the way the UI demands most or all of my desktop when I’m working with it.
The GIMP: Very capable, can do most of what Photoshop can do (even most PS tutorials are useful for GIMP users!) and what it can’t do won’t matter to most of the people who will try it anyway.
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This is post is my personal take on it, But ultimately it boils down to each to their own and we are all biased in our view's me included, As I support the open source movement my biased defends open source. Photoshop fans are biased as well and will defend Photoshop. This is just how us humans are aren't we, and why flame wars are a great Internet past time.